Hugh Reilly - That sounds like a bad trip, man

AS A hippy would say, school trips are bad acid, man. Only under certain circumstances, eg after undergoing five hours of waterboarding at the hands of CIA interrogators, would I consent to accompanying a bunch of teenagers on a school excursion.

I can vividly recall occasions in the past when I participated in leading a troop of teenagers around the country… and the scars still run deep.

When I was on my religious donkey, I naïvely volunteered to assist on a four-night catholic retreat to...